02345nam a2200325 a 4500001001500000005001700015008004100032020003500073020003000108040000600138050001300144082001700157100002500174245007200199260003500271300002100306520120200327650002801529650000901557650002001566650002501586650002901611650002001640650001801660856008201678942001201760999001701772952011401789952011601903ASIN178076125220170105102854.0130822s2012    xxu                 eng d  a1780761252 (hardcover)c$28.00  a9781780761251 (hardcover)  a004aUA853.I704a355.021709551 aPatrikarakos, David.10aNuclear iran :bthe birth of an atomic state /cDavid Patrikarakos.  a[S.l.] :bI. B. Tauris,c2012.  a320 p. ;c22 cm.  aThe Iranian nuclear crisis has dominated world politics since the beginning of the century, with Iran now facing increasing diplomatic isolation, talk of military strikes against its nuclear facilities and a disastrous Middle East war. There is little real understanding of Iran's nuclear program, in particular its history, which is now over fifty years old. This groundbreaking book, unprecedented in its scope, argues that the history of Iran's nuclear program and the modern history of the country itself are irretrievably linked; only by understanding one can we understand the other. From the program's beginnings under the Shah of Iran, the book details the US's central role in the birth of nuclear Iran and, through the relationship between the program's founder and the Shah of Iran himself, the role that weapons have played in the program since the beginning. David Patrikarakos's unique access to "the father" of Iran's nuclear program, as well as to key scientific personnel under the early Islamic Republic and to senior Iranian and Western officials at the center of today's negotiations, sheds new light on the uranium enrichment program that lies at the heart of global concerns. 0aInternational relations 0aIran 0aMilitary policy 0aNuclear arms control 0aNuclear nonproliferation 0aNuclear weapons 0aUnited States403Amazon.comuhttp://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1780761252/chopaconline-20  2ddccBK  c14400d14400  001040708NFICaCIPSbCIPScGENd2013-08-22l0o355.21789 PAT 2012pCIPS0000762r2013-08-22w2017-01-05yBK  001040708NFICaCIPSbCIPScCHILDd2013-10-01l0o355.21789 PAT 2012pCIPS0001407r2013-10-25w2017-01-05yBK